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My server seems to be a bit slow, so I decided to install munin to see what is happening. One statistic that stands out is that the server is forking 50 times a second, which seems a little excessive ...

I have a piece of software running on a 64 bit Cent 5.8 Final box, kernel 2.6.18. This piece of software using fork and vfork. Recently some failures occurred, and in my logging I can see that fork ...

I want to find out how Puppet handles manifests: in master process or Puppet forks it to execute in child process?
It necessary for me to know what exactly do puppet master while handling manifests, ...

I got an homework assignment to write a program that checks how many process a user can create (working in Ubuntu). I wrote the code which seems fine in theory. The problem is that when I run it, the ...

I have a script which rsync's a local directory to about 10 remote servers. It basically has a list of the servers and for loops through each of them doing the rsync. To speed up the process I have it ...

I have inherited a Perl script that runs on an EC2 instance which basically crawls a bunch of URL's for data (aka scraping). The way this script is invoked is via a shell script that forks multiple ...

I am using PROCESS CONTROL in PHP to create forks. my server's operating system is Ubuntu. How can i know what is the capacity of my server in handling those forks? is there a limit? and if so, can i ...

I'm running a Tomcat 6 instance on a 34 GB EC2 instance. I've been struggling to keep the memory down but this thing services a lot of requests and the heap frequently gets up to 13 GB. But the heap ...